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  • The Greatest Possible Good

    £9.99

    ‘I love Ben Brooks.’ Matt Haig  ‘Brooks is a frightening young talent.’ Tim Key

    HOW MUCH SHOULD ONE PERSON GIVE TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE? AND HOW MUCH CAN ONE FAMILY TAKE?
     
    When Arthur Candlewick falls down a disused mineshaft with only his son’s drug stash, a book on the concept of ‘effective altruism’ and a bottle of medium-priced Bordeaux for company, his life takes an unexpected turn. Determined to sell up the family timber business and devote his remaining time on earth to giving away his wealth in a way which does most good to humanity, his decision will leave a lasting legacy to the world but have unintended and unforeseen consequences for those he loves the most.
     

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  • The Comfort of Distant Stars

    £18.99

    Ezeani is no ordinary child. He sees things others don’t. Despite the burden of these visions, his precocious nature blossoms into genius and Ezeani grows up to be a gifted mathematician and physicist. When he leaves Nigeria and his adoring family behind to study at Cornell in the US, he remains haunted by his most persistent vision, Anyanwu, the Sun God. While Ezeani is adjusting to his new life in America, Anyanwu’s presence takes on an increasingly sinister and malevolent form – and chaos reigns. It’s enough to make anyone lose their grip on reality. ‘The Comfort of Distant Stars’ is a bold coming-of-age tale blending physics, philosophy and Igbo cosmology, examining how we understand our place in the universe. It ponders the big questions we all ask ourselves about the nature of time and of being – ultimately revealing the startling vulnerability of the human mind.

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  • Lake Effect

    ★ STAFF PICK!
    Selected by Aude
    £18.99

    Staff Pick!

    Aude says…

    Cynthia d’Aprix Sweeney’s prose is gentle, her characters real and her stories incredibly relatable. She writes human interactions, mistakes and with a sharp eye and a tender touch. After The Lake Effect, read The Nest for maximum family drama!

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    It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly non-existent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a neighbour brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible-but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara’s world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood.

    Years later Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down.

    Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humour and insight, LAKE EFFECT is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.

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  • Theft

    £9.99

    The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature – 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa

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  • The Loch of the Bees

    £10.99

    From the author of the prizewinning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes an evocative and deeply original novel that reimagines the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries, sweeping from the eighth century to the present day.

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  • Almost Life

    £16.99

    For readers of David Nicholls, Ann Patchett, and Colm Tóibìn, Almost Life is a love story that begins when Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-C?ur in 1978. Theirs is a story that will last a lifetime – even if their lives take them in very different directions.

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  • Women Without Men

    £12.99

    This internationally acclaimed masterpiece traces the interwoven destinies of five women – including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher – as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.T.

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  • Pixie

    £16.99

    From Whitbread Prize and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson comes a sweeping and vivid novel about publisher, illustrator and occultist Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith

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  • This Story Might Save Your Life

    £16.99

    Best friends Benny and Joy host a beloved ‘comedy survival’ podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences. When Benny arrives at Joy and her husband’s home one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. With Joy missing and the hours ticking by, not even their most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets they have hidden from the world – and from each other. If Benny wants to find Joy in time, and clear his own name, he’ll have to solve the highest stakes survival story yet.

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  • Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders

    £14.99

    The sixteen poems gathered in Ted Hughes’ ‘Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders’ brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of sentiment or nostalgia, singles out Hughes as one of the truly great poet-interpreters of the natural world. This edition gives full justice to the subtlety of the original watercolour illustrations, produced by Hughes’s long-term collaborator and friend, the American artist, Leonard Baskin.

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  • The Memory Bookshop

    £14.99

    THE KOREAN SENSATION

    For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away?

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  • To Snap a Silver Stem

    £22.00

    The second book in a darkly romantic Rapunzel reimagining from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of WHEN THE MOON HATCHED.

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